WALTHAM — The Community Preservation Committee on Tuesday quickly approved $400,000 for the Waltham Alliance to Create Housing to supplement development costs to renovate an old factory into affordable housing.

WALTHAM — It was like stepping into a Jane Austen novel when Susan Robertson, executive director of Gore Place, watched a man propose to a woman in a room at the historic estate of 19th century Mass. Gov. Christopher Gore.

WALTHAM — Plans to install a wireless communication facility on an existing tower will not noticeably change its appearance or pose any hazards, said representatives of Verizon Wireless to a full City Council session Monday night.

WALTHAM — Concerned the request could congest traffic and harm the historic nature and overall character of the neighborhood, 17 residents last night showed up at City Hall to oppose TD Bank's bid for a three-lane drive-through at Moody and Alder streets.

WAYLAND — A plethora of redactions and a missing 2006 evaluation have spurred further controversy from the recent release of individual comments created for Superintendent Gary Burton’s performance evaluations from 2004 to 2009 by School Committee members.

SUDBURY — In an effort to come up with new cost saving solutions, the towns of Sudbury and Wayland are considering sharing a variety of services from library programming to advanced life support services.

WAYLAND — After arriving at Hopital Sacre Coeur in Milot, Haiti, there wasn’t a lot of time for volunteer nurse Tom Curran-Apse of Wayland to pause and look around. Tending to one patient after another for 20 hours a day was enough to keep a mind occupied.

WAYLAND — Grassroots organization Save Our Services (SOS) is catching flak for donating an e-mail distribution list to a ballot question committee created to support the High School building vote last year, with questions hovering over whether the organization violated its own anti-spam policy.

SUDBURY — Four days following the 7.0 magnitude earthquake in her native Haiti, Marie Doirin of Sudbury had not heard from her family in Port-au-Prince. Finally, at the end of the fourth day, the phone rang. It was one of her cousins on the other end of the line calling to tell her that everyone in her family was alive and safe.

SUDBURY — Students at Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School, despite being in the throes of mid-term exams, have raised nearly $10,000 for Haiti relief efforts since the impoverished country was hit by a 7.0 magnitude earthquake two weeks ago.

WAYLAND — Frank Dougherty, project manager for the proposed Town Center development, cited progress on the development last week as the state Department of Environmental Protection issued a conservation permit for the project.